Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
July 11-12, 2023
Cherrystone's Summer Auction will be take place July 10-11, 2023. There are numerous highlights, including United States, with an intact "Roosevelt Album", a collection of Crash & Disaster mail formed be the late Zvi Aloni (contributor to the American Air Mail Catalogue) and portions of Carl A. Kilgas' collections of China, Taiwan, PRC and Korea. There are substantial showings of Italy and Italian Colonies, Central and South America, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, plus hundreds of Large Lots and Collections offered intact and more. This is a public auction, with live internet bidding via CherrystoneLIVE
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1969 PERU 1800s selection of 13 mostly coverfronts (usually Judicial documents) or partial covers showing prephilatelic handstamps of "Trujillo", "Piura", "Hvanvco", "Tarma", "Lima", "Casma", used internally, some with charge and due markings, mostly fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #1970 PERU 1856-75 seven FLs from Lima and Tacna to France and Italy, three with franking, others stampless, showing variety of accountancy and transit markings, one with red "Panama Transit" and blue "Franca Tacna" handstamps, fine group of Trans-Atlantic letters from Peru  | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1971 PERU 1870 (27 July) FL from Callao to Genova, franked with single 1d green, faint pmk, with ms "28" (decimes, double rate), 2Lire (faulty) and 2x40c Italian Postage Dues added in Genova, "F 56" accountancy mark overstruck by "F57", "GB 1F90c" British accountancy (Salles 3059), faint London transit and arrival pmks on back, filing fold through the Peruvian adhesive, otherwise fine Catalog #14 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1972 PERU 1873 cover franked with 1868 1d green and 1872 1p orange yellow (SG 20a,22a), paying the internal postage, with Great Britain 1865 4p vermilion, plate 12 (3 copies), 1867 3p rose, plate 9 (2), 1862 5p buff, plate 11 (2) and 1s green, plate 6 (a further stamp is missing from the cover), all canceled by "Tacna 9 Feb 1873" cds of the Peruvian Post Office, with the GB stamps further canceled by "C36" (SG Z5, Z7, Z13, Z24) of "Arica", with corresponding Feb 8 cds alongside, sent via Callao (Feb 12) to Dorum, Hannover, Germany, with red London transit and framed arrival (15 March) datestamp on back, minor faults, 1p was folded over and has been extended, very rare combination franking, with 1989 Holcombe certificate ("the 1peso is very rare used on a letter going out of the country") | Unsold |
 | Lot #1973 PERU 1874 registered cover to Trujillo, franked with single 10c carmine and pair of 20c brown, tied by "Certificacion" handstamps, ms endorsements on back, minor cover faults, otherwise fine Catalog #17,18 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1974 PERU 1877 embossed 20c violet stationery entire envelope, additionally franked with 1867 10c vermilion, perf.12 and 1872 1 peseta orange yellow, all canceled by double circle "Pasco Pral. 2 Jan. 1877", with straight line "Pasco Certification Franca" at left, sent to Lima, where it arrived on 5 January and was signed on reverse as receipt for its contents, filing fold away from the stamps, signed Lamy, also Peter Holcombe, with his 1999 certificate ("A spectacular registered letter. The 1 peseta orange yellow is a rare stamp on letter") Catalog #15,17 | Unsold |
